Paul Williams

In regards to Kevin J.H. Dettmar's review of Robert Christgau's "Going Into the City" ["A Rock Critic Pioneer, on the Record," March 1], Dettmar suggests that we peg the birth of rock criticism to Richard Goldstein's establishing his Pop Eye column in the Village Voice, in June 1966. By then, Paul Williams' independently published, nationally distributed Crawdaddy, solely dedicated to covering the music, had been in business for five months. Little over a month after the debut of Pop Eye, Greg Shaw's similarly focused...

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